Insight farmland head seeks pastures new at TIAA-Cref unit

The US pension provider has ambitions to diversify its portfolio across the world's major grain exporting regions

By

Mark Cobley

October 9, 2014 Updated: 5:53 p.m. GMT

Martin Davies, who helped build one of the largest UK-based businesses investing in farmland on behalf of pension schemes at Insight Investment, has left to build a European operation for the farmland investment unit of US pensions provider TIAA-Cref.

Davies, who ran a $230 million agricultural fund at Insight that invested in farmland in Europe, Australia and South America, started work at Westchester Group Investment Management this week.